Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sardine/mathi fry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Sardine fry or Mathi Fry or chala fry is a crispy, flavorful starter or a side dish for hot rice. This sardines fish is so abundant in Kerala. Clean the sardines well and make oblique gashes on both sides of the fish.
Sardine/mathi fry is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Sardine/mathi fry is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sardine/mathi fry using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sardine/mathi fry:
- Get 5 sardine -
- Get 2 tsps pepper powder -
- Prepare 1 tbsp chilly powder -
- Prepare as required salt -
- Make ready to fry oil
- Take curry leaves
Frankly speaking I could never get a perfect recipe for frying sardine fish. And also the fish is fried in a bed of curry leaves, which prevents it from sticking as well as absorbs the flavour from the curry. Sardines or Mathi is usually used to fry and curry. It is also called Chaala Varuthathu and is a Mathi / Chaala contains lots of vitamins and calcium.
Steps to make Sardine/mathi fry:
- First clean the sardine well cutting its head and tail. Remove the scales. Pull out the thread and a sac like stuff from inside using your fingures. Rinse well in water. Wash it nicely using salt 2 - 3 times.
- After cleaning the fish make 3-4 slits on both side of the fish. Then marinate it using chilly powder, pepper powder and salt. coat the fish properly on each side.
- Keep the fish marinated for 1-2 hours. Then put some oil in a pan, to shallow fry the fish. When the oil is hot, add few springs of curry leaves on it. Then put the fish above this curry leaves and cook. Flip the fish pieces carefully after 6-8 minutes until it is cooked properly on both sides.
Sardines are high in Omega fatty acids which controls. Sardines are very hard to supply to towns that are far from the main coasts which is one of the big reasons why you don't seem them in the local market very often. Unless of course you drench them in. Sardine Stir Fry uses tinned sardines sauteed with onions & spices and garnished with grated And every time we visit, mom-in-law would make my husband's favorite - Kerala Style Sardine Fry. I am back after quite a long break.:).
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